I've been re-watching the last season over the past week or so, and the 2nd time around, the Red Wedding is still hard to watch. I want nothing more than to see Freys' heads on pikes. I hope the surviving Northmen or the Brotherhood Without Banners wage a guerrilla war against those treacherous swine. Leave Frey corpses littering the road and swinging from trees.

The Unsullied are the most badass looking soldiers since the Immortals in 300.

Apparently the guy who plays Joffery is going to quit acting after the next season... So that could be considered a spoiler of sorts. It suggests that Joffery will not be in season 5. Unless they intend to replace him with another actor, which I don't think I would like since dude is the perfect spoiled piece of shit "king".

Martin should hurry up with that next book. Or the show is going catch up. It'll probably be 2,000 pages long.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Apparently the guy who plays Joffery is going to quit acting after the next season... So that could be considered a spoiler of sorts. It suggests that Joffery will not be in season 5. Unless they intend to replace him with another actor, which I don't think I would like since dude is the perfect spoiled piece of shit "king".

Martin should hurry up with that next book. Or the show is going catch up. It'll probably be 2,000 pages long.

By all accounts he's apparently one of the most fantastic human beings anyone has ever known. How he can pull off Joffrey so perfectly is astounding.

I read that he wants to spend his time helping people in Haiti or something.

Makes me feel like a selfish asshole is what he does. Fuckin little jerk.

And then we get to see how the producers handle the clusterfuck that is Books 4 & 5 (More Book 4, though).

Can you sort of have Seasons 5+ be just "loosely based on books written by George RR Martin" without really pissing off George RR Martin?

Guess they'll just have to insert some more soft core porn a la 2 random naked girls torturing Theon.

POSSIBLE BOOK SPOILERS: Brienne's storyline in Book 4 could literally be done in two episodes MAX. And I still think that would be stretching things. How that storyline encompassed some 300-400 pages in Book 4 still floors me. At least it felt like 300-400 pages, I'm not going back to count.

There's room to play around with the Jon Snow and Stannis storyline. that could fill out episodes without "padding."

Obviously, More Tyrion.

The show may start working on the BIG character reveal at the end of Book 5 earlier. Working in the visual medium, you could have the bombshell character introduced without actually saying who he is until whenever it made sense to make the big reveal.

I trust these guys. And we'll have to since it recently was pointed out to me Martin never actually has finished any series he's started in his life. At the rate he's going, if we get Book 6 we'll have to consider ourselves lucky.

justmebd wrote:POSSIBLE BOOK SPOILERS: Brienne's storyline in Book 4 could literally be done in two episodes MAX. And I still think that would be stretching things. How that storyline encompassed some 300-400 pages in Book 4 still floors me. At least it felt like 300-400 pages, I'm not going back to count.

DEFINITE BOOK SPOILER: What, you're not fascinated by her travelling all the way out to the Fingers (or wherever) for no reason and then coming back?

justmebd wrote:POSSIBLE BOOK SPOILERS: Brienne's storyline in Book 4 could literally be done in two episodes MAX. And I still think that would be stretching things. How that storyline encompassed some 300-400 pages in Book 4 still floors me. At least it felt like 300-400 pages, I'm not going back to count.

DEFINITE BOOK SPOILER: What, you're not fascinated by her travelling all the way out to the Fingers (or wherever) for no reason and then coming back?

Book 4 is painful at times, boring in others. Brienne's parts in that book are just awful. Book 5 is...ok. The Dany parts though were the most boring to me. Which is a shame, because I liked a lot of her earlier stories.

Ah, the "Purple Wedding". I loved the way they made him look, personally. A fitting end for someone everyone hates.

I also loved that they followed it with "The Rains of Castamere" in the closing credits.

Future book/show spoilers (highlight to view):

Interesting that they didn't include Penny in the dwarf tournament, unless I somehow missed her? To me it looked like all 5 were males though.

And yes, it looks like Olenna will be behind it. Sansa was missing a stone on her necklace (the one to the far right, as we're looking at her). And Olenna was by the cup for a long time with everyone distracted.

Should see Littlefinger again next week, I'd imagine. He's been absent for too long.

And how do they end this season? So many cliffhangers to choose from - Tywin, Lady Stoneheart, Lysa...that's a tough choice.

StewieG wrote:Ah, the "Purple Wedding". I loved the way they made him look, personally. A fitting end for someone everyone hates.

I also loved that they followed it with "The Rains of Castamere" in the closing credits.

Future book/show spoilers (highlight to view):

Interesting that they didn't include Penny in the dwarf tournament, unless I somehow missed her? To me it looked like all 5 were males though.

And yes, it looks like Olenna will be behind it. Sansa was missing a stone on her necklace (the one to the far right, as we're looking at her). And Olenna was by the cup for a long time with everyone distracted.

Should see Littlefinger again next week, I'd imagine. He's been absent for too long.

And how do they end this season? So many cliffhangers to choose from - Tywin, Lady Stoneheart, Lysa...that's a tough choice.

The "highlight to view" immediately moves your response to leader in the clubhouse for post of the year.

Unfortunately, replying no longer masks your spoilers, and thus you are DQ'd.

I don't need to be patient, they're going to be shit forever. - CDT, discussing my favorite NFL team

Yeah, they're already starting some of the book 4/5 plots. Bran's book 5 plot started last episode, Daenerys is going to be starting her book 5 plot sometime this season, and you could probably do Brienne's entire book 4 plot in a single episode.

I kind of think they'll be caught up to him by the end of next season, or the season after if the new book drops between now and then. The series is definitely going to pass him. I wonder if they'll show the conclusion of the story before the books actually come out, or if they'll buy time with something like a flashback series, showing Robert's rebellion, young Ned Start, etc.